Download or read book The Corporation Sole written by Frederic William Maitland and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-11 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an invaluable work by Frederic William Maitland, an English jurist and legal historian whose contribution was bringing historical and comparative methods to bear on studying English institutions. Excerpt "Persons are either natural or artificial. The only natural persons are men. The only artificial persons are corporations. Corporations are either aggregate or sole. This, I take it, would be an orthodox beginning for a chapter on the English Law of Persons, and such it would have been at any time since the days of Sir Edward Coke. It makes use, however, of one very odd term which seems to approach self-contradiction, namely, the term "corporation sole", and the question may be raised, and indeed has been raised, whether our corporation sole is a person, and whether we do well in endeavouring to co-ordinate it with the corporation aggregate and the individual man."